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Major Prizes


  • Fields Medal
  • Nobel Prize
  • Wolf Prize
  • Abel Prize
  • Shaw Prize
  • Clay Research Award
  • Crafoord Prize
  • Turing Award

    • International Mathematical Union Awards

  • Fields Medal
  • Gauss Prize
  • Nevanlinna Prize
  • Chern Medal
  • ICM Emmy Noether Lecture

    • Royal Society Prizes

  • Royal Society Copley Medal
  • Royal Society Royal Medal
  • Royal Society Sylvester Medal

    • London Mathematical Society Prizes

  • LMS Anne Bennett Prize
  • LMS Berwick Prizes
  • LMS De Morgan Medal
  • LMS Frölich Prize
  • LMS Hirst Prize and Lectureship
  • LMS Naylor Prize
  • LMS Shephard Prize
  • LMS Senior Whitehead Prize
  • LMS Whitehead Prize

    • American Mathematical Society Prizes

  • AMS Böcher Prize
  • AMS Cole Prize for algebra
  • AMS Cole Prize for number theory
  • AMS Levi L Conant Prize
  • AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize Prize
  • AMS Leroy P Steele Prize
  • AMS Veblen Prize
  • AMS Norbert Wiener Prize
  • AMS/SIAM Garrett Birkhoff Prize
  • AMS Delbert Ray Fulkerson Prize

    • Royal Statistical Society Prizes

  • RSS Guy Medal in Gold
  • RSS Guy Medal in Silver
  • RSS Guy Medal in Bronze

    • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Prizes

  • SIAM Ralph E Kleinman Prize
  • SIAM George Pólya Prize
  • SIAM W T and Idalia Reid Prize
  • SIAM Prize for Distinguished Service
  • SIAM Theodore von Kármán Prize
  • SIAM Germund Dahlquist Prize

    • Japanese Mathematical Society Prizes

  • MSJ Algebra Prize
  • MSJ Analysis Prize
  • MSJ Geometry Prize
  • MSJ Iyanaga and Spring Prizes
  • MSJ Autumn Prize
  • MSJ Seki-Takakazu Prize

    • Australian/New Zealand Mathematical Societies Awards

  • Australian MS Medal
  • Australian MS Szekeres Medal
  • Australian MS Gavin Brown Prize
  • ANZIAM medal
  • ANZIAM J H Michell Medal
  • New Zealand MS Research Award
  • New Zealand MS Forder Lecturers

    • Association for Women in Mathematics awards

  • Joan and Joseph Birman Prize
  • Ruth I Michler Memorial Prize
  • Sadosky Prize in Analysis
  • Alice T Schafer Prize
  • Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory

    • International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Awards

  • ICIAM Collatz Prize
  • ICIAM Lagrange Prize
  • ICIAM Maxwell Prize
  • ICIAM Pioneer Prize
  • ICIAM Su Buchin Prize

    • Other Prizes and Awards

  • American Statistical Association Wilks Award
  • Balzan Prize in Mathematics
  • Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
  • Canadian MS Coxeter-James Prize
  • Canadian MS Jeffery-Williams Prize
  • Canadian MS Krieger-Nelson Prize
  • Canadian Number Theory Ribenboim Prize
  • Columbian MS Jose Celestino Mutis Prize
  • Colombian MS Premio Nacional de Matematicas
  • DMV Georg Cantor Medal
  • Dutch MS Brouwer Medal
  • EMS Whittaker Prize
  • European MS Prizes
  • Fermat Prize of Université Paul Sabatier
  • Godeaux Lecture Prize
  • Herbrand Award
  • Israel Mathematical Union Anna and Lajos Erdos Prize
  • Israel Mathematical Union Haim Nessyahu Prize
  • Israel Mathematical Union Levitzky Prize in Algebra
  • Karp Prize
  • MAA Chauvenet Prize
  • NAS Award Applied Maths/Num Analysis
  • NAS Award in Mathematics
  • Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize
  • Norwegian Statistics Sverdrup Prize
  • Ostrowski Prize
  • Pacific Astronomical Society Bruce Medallists
  • Pythagoras Award
  • Renyi Prize
  • SEMA Antonio Valle Award
  • SEMA Journal Article Award
  • St Petersburg MS Abramov Prize
  • St Petersburg MS Young Mathematician prize
  • Rolf Schock Prize
  • Steiner Prize
  • Su Buchin Prize
  • Sunyer i Balaguer Prize
  • Tóth medal
  • Wallenberg Prize
  • World Academy of Science Awards

    • Speakers at Conferences

  • International Congress of Mathematicians
  • British Mathematical Colloquium
  • Brazilian Mathematics Colloquium
  • Groups St Andrews Conferences
  • Groups in Galway
  • History of Mathematics and Teaching of Mathematics

    • Professorships

  • Savilian chairs of Mathematics and Astronomy
  • Waynflete chair of Pure Mathematics
  • Lucasian chair of Mathematics
  • Lowndean chair of Astronomy and Mathematics
  • Plumian chair of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
  • St Andrews Regius professorship

    • Presidencies, etc

  • Royal Society Presidents
  • American MS Presidents
  • London MS Presidents
  • London MS Presidential addresses
  • Edinburgh MS Presidents
  • Edinburgh MS Honorary Treasurers
  • Edinburgh MS Honorary Secretaries
  • Swiss MS Presidents

    • Lectureships

  • AMS Colloquium Lecturers
  • AMS Gibbs Lectures
  • Gödel Lecturers
  • Royal Society Bakerian Lecturers
  • Bowen Lecturers
  • Chern Visiting Professorship
  • MAA Hedrick Lecturers
  • Australian MS Mahler Lecturership
  • AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
  • AWM-AMS Noether Lecture
  • SIAM John von Neumann Lecture
  • St Andrews Copson Lectures
  • St Andrews Curle Lectures
  • Vienna Mathematical Society lectures

    • Fellowships, etc

  • Royal Society Fellows
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows
  • Edinburgh MS Honorary Fellows
  • London MS Honorary Members
  • RSS Honorary Fellows
  • DMV Honorary Members
  • St Petersburg MS Honorary Members

    • Other honours

  • Paris street names
  • Commemorated on the Eiffel Tower

  • Lunar features
  • Planetary features

  • Google doodles
  • Popular biographies in MacTutor

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